Public Safety committee  In a year, the national sex offender registry is accessed about 165 times. It's strictly in support of sexual crime investigations. It's where we build the tactical query, which is the process by which we input parameters into the database and try to generate a pool of persons of

Public Safety committee  Each province and territory is responsible for administering and enforcing the act. In Quebec, the Sûreté du Québec is responsible. I think those compliance rates you're quoting are dated.

Public Safety committee  Right. There's been a dramatic increase. In Quebec, the Sûreté du Québec reported to me just last year that their non-compliance rate is down to about 8%, so there's been some improvement.

Public Safety committee  Those are some of them. I don't think I mentioned funds in my comments, but now that you bring it up....

Public Safety committee  The program is national, not federal, so the cost of deploying the program belongs to the provinces and territories. For the RCMP, for us, the National Policy Centre here in Ottawa, my job and my staff, our budget historically has been about $400,000. Last year, it was about $600

Public Safety committee  Those are some of the comments reported to us from the centres. I think it's been getting better over the past four or five years. The national sex offender registry and the legislation are new, so there is the education component, not only for law enforcement but also for prosec

Public Safety committee  There is a number of risk assessment tools, not specifically tied to sex reoffending, for different types of violent offenders. General non-compliance with court orders or regulations is usually a risk enhancer. It just flows that if you have no respect for the law or an order th

Public Safety committee  The National Policy Centre for the RCMP recommends one door-knock per year in all our jurisdictions, just to confirm the data provided through the offender and computer checks. There is a number of reasons why some places are successful at doing it and others are not. It's import

Public Safety committee  On your first question in terms of impact, mental health professionals will tell you that people in general have positive illusions or outlooks on life. When you see a violent crime happen to someone, you have a tendency to rationalize and say, “It can't happen to me because I do

Public Safety committee  I can say it's 94%, but I have to throw in a caveat here, because Ms. Lines told you the statistic as of 8:15 this morning in Ontario. The national sex offender registry doesn't allow us to do that. Last week I asked my staff to find out from the national registry the complianc

Public Safety committee  I can speak to that. Largely, people who molest children don't just molest children; it's a mistake to think that people are one-dimensional when we're talking about sex offenders. We have offenders who will molest children, the elderly, and people who are mentally challenged--an

Public Safety committee  If I could speak to that, I know a little bit about the U.S. registries. I've met a few colleagues down there. There are certain things that are nice, but they have other things that I think we should stay away from. For instance, from the RCMP's perspective, the public access is

Public Safety committee  I can't say we've helped solve a crime; we don't see that impact. As I indicated earlier, I think there's value in this registry, and it's to come as the database is populated and the use is expanded. I think we will see the positive results.

Public Safety committee  Part of our mission is to monitor compliance and ensure that we have up-to-date data in there. I'll give you an example of the challenges. We have some people who are convicted of designated offences and receive a custodial sentence, perhaps a federal sentence, and they're in th

Public Safety committee  I would like to weigh in on this one as well. There is some research out there on undetected offences. First of all, sexual assault is the most under-reported crime. People report their vehicles stolen and their houses broken into, but for a wide range of reasons, a lot of vict